From Environmentally Friendly Reusable Ionic-Tagged Ruthenium-Based Complexes to Industrially Relevant Homogeneous Catalysts: Toward a Sustainable Olefin Metathesis

This account describes our investigations, over the past decade, on the design of ruthenium-based complexes dedicated to sustainable olefin metathesis. An overview of different classes of catalysts, from reusable ionically tagged systems to industrially relevant homogeneous complexes, including latent catalysts, is disclosed. Challenging applications involving these robust complexes, including the valorization of olefin feedstock derived from biomass into valuable building blocks, are also discussed.